already so much tragedy and devastation. all right, barbara, thank you for that. turning now to the new developments in the moments leading up to this week s deadly amtrak crash. the ntsb says it took only one minute for the train to accelerate from 70 to over 100 miles an hour ahead of that fateful curve. cnn s government regulation correspondent rene marsh has more live from philadelphia this morning. rene. reporter: good morning, michaela. investigators say that at first search here no problems found with either the tracks or the signals. but new data from the video cameras onboard this amtrak train show that just a minute before this crash the train was speeding up and not slowing down as it approached this curve. overnight crews continue to remove the seven cars one by one from the deadly crash site as the ntsb is eager to interview 32-year-old brandon bostian, the
about 97 metric tons. that is pushing up quarter million pounds. if it is traveling 50 miles an hour as it should have been here all of the physics work out fine. yes, there is force to the outside of the curve just like a car going around the corner quickly, but it is all balanced out. push it up to 100 miles an hour and that force becomes greater. maybe up here with a low center of gravity with heavy amount of weight sitting low, it doesn t tip over. not necessarily the same back there. go back to the passenger cars and that s where we had passengers describing the feeling of the cars flying up off the rails. we know that s possible because it may have had a different center of gravity. in spain, this train was supposed to go 50 miles an hour and it was over 100 and look at it slinging off the tracks. that is why the investigators knew they had to look at the
these two women were catapulted up into the luggage rack. everyone was just gushing blood. everyone was screaming. it was such a state of panic. this train was going 106 miles an hour in a 50-mile-an-hour zone. the man at the center this is that engineer. clearly he was reckless and irresponsible. to make comments like that is inflammatory at this point. positive train control, it s a very expensive braking system. it was not in place in this part of the track. if it had been this crash may well not have happened. it is thursday may 14th 6:00 in the east. as you see alisyn and mich are in new york and i m in fill kel fa covering developments in the amtrak crash. speed is the buzz word right now. why was this train going more than twice the speed allowed what turned out to be a fateful curve. the train s engineer brandon bostian told police he couldn t recall how fast he was going and
george oglvy were disrupting the active bomb investigation at the white house. i want to look at what is coming up on new day. chris cuomo on the crash scene in philadelphia. good morning, chris. john three big points of focus. first is the idea of speed being what was the catalyst for the crash. investigators are going very slowly on it. the mayor here, michael nutter talking about the engineer and what investigators believe they know early on about the speed. largely in part from the surveillance video cnn had this morning, but also from the black box. if the train was going so fast into the curve, which seems probable from common sense of how terribly destroyed the cars were, what does that mean? why did that happen? is it human error or systems? you have the issue of the
investigators might have prevented the tragedy. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. christine romans is off today. the investigation into the amtrak crash is focused on speed. the national transportation safety board has recovered the black box from the wreckage. the ntsb say the washington to new york train hit a tight curve on the north side of philadelphia at more than 100 miles an hour. more than double the posted speed in that stretch. the engineer brandon bostian slammed on the emergency brakes seconds before the train derailed. at least seven died in the crash and more than 200 injured. eight people listed in critical condition. let s bring in rene marchsh for the latest on the investigation. reporter: good morning, john. we know the train was going 106